Education. Bachelor of Arts (Summa Cum Laude) 1992 History and Asian American Studies, UCLA. Teaching Appointments and Professional Experience

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1 Dr. Kariann Akemi Yokota Yale University Ivy Scholars Program P.O. Box New Haven, Connecticut Phone: (203) Education Doctor of Philosophy in History 2002 Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Dissertation title: A Culture of Insecurity: The United States as a Post-Colonial Nation Fields of study: U.S. Intellectual and Cultural History, Colonial and Early American History, Race and Ethnic Studies, Immigration, Cultural Studies and Post-colonial Theory, Social Theory Master of Arts in History 1996 Ph.D. Candidacy Oral Examination - Passed with Distinction Master of Arts in Asian American Studies 1994 Asian American Studies Program, UCLA Thesis title: From Little Tokyo to Bronzeville and Back: Japanese Americans and African Americans in Los Angeles Bachelor of Arts (Summa Cum Laude) 1992 History and Asian American Studies, UCLA Teaching Appointments and Professional Experience Senior Scholar, 2010-present Ivy Scholars Program, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA - Serve as senior advisor on the development of new public education and outreach programs from high school students to planned programs targeting adults and senior citizens - Assist the director with the curriculum and program development of Yale s premier public education and outreach program for both American and international high school students Year Long Fellow Huntington Library, San Marino, California, USA Assistant Professor of History and American Studies Department of American Studies and Department of History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Visiting Lecturer Fall Semester 2000 Department of History, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

2 History Dept. Faculty of Arts, Honours Course Anglo-American History in A Trans-Atlantic Context History Dept. Faculty of Arts, Graduate Professional Seminar for Historians Visiting Lecturer 1999 Department of History and Asian American Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania ASAM 003: Introduction to Asian American History Staff Reporter, Rafu Shimpo: The Los Angeles Japanese American Daily News Los Angeles Japanese American Daily Newspaper Covered education, Asian American, cultural, and community issues Publications Pacific Overtures: America and the Nineteenth Century Trans-Pacific World of Goods (In progress) Unbecoming British: How Revolutionary America Became a Postcolonial Nation (In production, Oxford University Press, ISBN13: ) Globalizing American Studies, Brian Edwards, Dilip Gaonkar (eds.) with Donald Pease September 2010, University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: Multiple Entries: Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008, ISBN-13: ). Mt. Vernon Flask, in Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness Edward Savage s Liberty, (Double Entry) in Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness Bostonians, (Double Entry) in Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness Chief Justice Marshall, Troy (Steamboat, Troy Line) in Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness Gardner and Fletcher Urn in Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness Plate with a view of the Erie Canal, Aqueduct Bridge at Rochester in Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness Postcolonialism and Material Culture in the Early Republic, William and Mary Quarterly 64, No. 2 (April 2007). The Curious Career of Henry Moss: Race and Place in Post-Colonial America, Commonplace: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life (Autumn 2003). Eighteenth Century Religious Aesthetics, Review of Quaker Aesthetics in Journal of Design History, Vol. 18, No. 1 (June 2005). Oral Histories as Living Histories, Amerasia Journal 28:3 (2002).

3 To Pursue the Steam to its Fountain : Race, Inequality, and the Post-Colonial Exchange of Knowledge Across the Atlantic, Explorations in Early American Culture: A Journal of Mid- Atlantic Studies, Volume 5 (2001): Fellowships and Prizes Dana and David Dornsife Fellow, Huntington Library, Year-Long Fellow, John and Yvonne McCredie Fellowship in Instructional Technology in the amount of $13,600, Hilles Grant for the publication of a first book, Whitney Humanities Center, 2009 Griswold Travel Grant, Australia, Pacific Overtures: America and the Trans-Pacific World of Goods, , cycle (deferred) Morse Faculty Fellowship, Pacific Overtures: America and the Trans-Pacific World of Goods, , Research Fellowship, Huntington Library, Research Grant, Ethnicity, Race and Migration Program, Yale University, 2003-present Electronic Library Initiatives Grant, American Digital Imaging Project, Yale University, 2003 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, The Huntington Library San Marino, CA, 2001 Faculty Research Fellowship, The Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion, Yale University, Irish Seminar, Keogh-Notre Dame Centre, Dublin, Ireland, American Antiquarian Society Research Fellowship, Worcester, MA, Faculty Fellowship, Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University, (Declined), 2001 Albert J. Beveridge Research Grant, American Historical Association, Research Fellowship, Library Company, Philadelphia, PA, 1999 Mellon Research Fellow, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA, 1999 Dissertation Research Fellow, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Dissertation Summer Research Fellowship, Pew Program in Religion and American History, Yale University, 1998 Lois McNeil Dissertation Fellowship, Residential Fellow for Spring Semester, Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library in Delaware, 1998 Senior Research Fellow, Fall Semester, Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University, 1997 Andrew Mellon Fellowship, Center for the Study of New England History, Mass. Historical Society, 1997

4 Project 88 Scholarship, Graduate Division, UCLA, Institute of American Cultures Research Fellowship, UCLA, 1994 Institute of American Cultures Thesis Grant, UCLA, 1993 Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, 1992 Professional Service Member, Fellowship Committee, American Studies, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2011 Member, Program Committee, Organization of American Historians, Peer Reviewer/Reader, Journal of the Early Republic, Society for Historians of the Early Republic Member, Search Committee, Department of American Studies, Cultural Geography, Faculty Advisor and Faculty Resident Fellow, Pierson College, Member, Executive Committee, Yale University, Ethnicity, Race & Migration Post-doctorial Associate Committee 2006 Member, University Committee for Teaching in the Residential Colleges, Yale University, ; , Mentor, Women Mentoring Women Program, Yale University, 2006 Faculty Advisor, Department of American Studies and Department of History, Yale University, 2001-present Senior Essay Advisor, Department of American Studies and Department of History, Yale University, 2001-present Advisory Board Member, Asian American Studies and Community Issues at Yale University, 2001-present Advisory Board Member, Asian American Cultural Center, Yale University, 2001-present Executive Committee, Department of American Studies, Yale University, 2002-present Peer Reviewer/Reader, William and Mary Quarterly, 2004-present Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of American Studies, Yale University, present Advisor, Material Culture Roundtable, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2003 Program Committee, 2002 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, 2002 Senior Essay Prize Committee, Department of American Studies, Yale University, 2001 Massachusetts Historical Society, Academic Fellowship Awards Committee, 2001

5 Selected Academic Presentations and Invited Talks Commentator, War and the Visceral Imagination, American Studies Association Meeting, October, 2011 Invited Speaker, Pacific Spaces: Comparisons and Connections, Huntington Library, November 2010 Pacific Cultures, American Democracy: The U.S. and The Transpacific World of Goods, , Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, April 2010 Invited Speaker, "Americanists Reconsider the Pacific: a Roundtable Discussion," Roundtable Discussion, organized at the request of the American Historical Association, AHA Annual Meeting, January 2010 Invited Speaker, Roundtable, Organization of American Historians Committee on African, Latino, Asian and Native American History and Historians, with Nell Painter, George Sanchez, David Roediger, Eric Avia March-April 2007 Commentator, When East Became West: The Changing Borders of America and the Pacific World, Yale University, Lamar Center, September 2005 Invited Speaker, American National Identity in the Post-Colonial Period, Graduate Seminar in History , Department of History, Oxford University, United Kingdom Invited Speaker, Trans-Oceanic Travails: Post-Colonial Americans and the British Empire, British Maritime History Seminar Series, National Maritime Museum and The Institute for Historical Research, University of London, UK, February 2005 Invited Speaker, Imported Identities: Post-Revolutionary Americans and the Trans-Atlantic World of Exchange Globalizing American Studies, Northwestern University, Chicago, May 2005 Panelist, Pacific Overtures: Post-Colonial Americans and the Northwest Quest for China, The Transformation of the North Pacific Conference, , Huntington Library, Los Angeles, April 2005 Panelist, America and the Trans-Oceanic World: Connecting Trans-Atlantic and Trans- Pacific Studies, Democracy and Culture in the Transatlantic World, Maastricht, The Netherlands, May 2005 Panelist, Unbecoming British: Material Culture and National Identity in Post-Colonial America. NAAS Biannual Conference, Vaxjo/Karlskrona University, Sweden, May 2005 Faculty Speaker, Lecture Series, Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific Networks of Cultural, Intellectual and Economic Exchange, Oxford Discovery Programme, Oxford University, England, UK, 2004 and 2005 Invited Speaker, "A Proving Ground for the Nation: America and the Trans-Pacific World, Globalizing American Studies Conference Northwestern University, Chicago, April 2004

6 Commentator, "Collective Degradation: Slavery and the Construction of Race, The Gilder- Lehrman Center, Yale University, November 2003 Commentator, A Transnational History of the Early United States, , meeting of The Society of Historians of the Early Republic, July 2004 Declarations of Independence: Visual Representations of America from Philadelphia to London and Canton, Eighteenth Century at Yale, Seminar Series, 2004 Panelist, "Visual, Material and Performance Cultures in American Studies," American Studies Discussion Series, Yale University, April 2003 Revolutionary objects: transatlantic networks of material exchange, , Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, Department of Modern History, Hilary Term, 2003, Graduate Seminars in Irish and British History, March 2003 From American Backcountry to British Court: Benjamin West s The Artist and His Family, Art in Context Lecture Series, British Art Center, Yale University, November 2002 Discussant, Keynote Session, Selling Race: The Limits and Liberties of the Market, UCLA, October 2002 American and Irish Exchange in the Revolutionary Era, The Irish Seminar, Keogh-Notre Dame Centre, Dublin, Ireland, July 2002 Geographies of Value: The Exchange of Objects, People & Knowledge between Post-Colonial America and the British Empire, Boston Early American History Seminar, Massachusetts Historical Society, May 2002 Sowing the Seeds of Post-colonial Discontent: The Transatlantic Exchange of American Nature and British Patronage, Early American Seminar, Columbia University, New York, April 2002 American Post-Colonials in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Trans-Atlantic World, Paper presented to the Faculty Seminar and Honors Seminar, Williams College, Massachusetts, March 2002 George Washington and the Post-Revolutionary Generation, Featured Guest Speaker for the Annual Winter Court of the Connecticut Society for Colonial Wars, January 2002 Sowing the Seeds of Colonial Ambition: The Transatlantic Exchange of North American Botanical Prints and British Patronage, paper presented at Art and the British Empire: An International Conference, at the Tate Britain, London, July 2001 References Professor John Demos, Department of History, Yale University Susan Ferber, Executive Editor, Oxford University Press Professor Matthew Garcia, Department of History, American Civilization, and Ethnic Studies, Brown University Professor David Igler, Department of History, University of California, Irvine

7 Professor Matthew Jacobson, Chair, Department of American Studies, Yale University Dr. Minh A. Luong, Director, Ivy Scholars Program, Yale University Professor Mae Ngai, Department of History, and Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies, Columbia University Professor Gary Okihiro, Founding Director Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Columbia University Dr. Alice Prochaska, Former University Librarian, Yale University and Principal of Somerville, College, Oxford University Professor David Waldstreicher, Department of History, Temple University

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